Improvement in wash-boards



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No.r20l,658.

WITNESSES Wash-Board,

Patented Marches, 187,8.

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UNITEDS'IATES PATENT OEEIOE.

OHARLES EvERrs,OE ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.V

|MPROvl-:MENT IN WASH-BOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 201,658, dated March 26, 1878; application filed y December 27, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES EVERTS, of St. Louis, in the county of St. Louisand State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wash-Boards, of which the following is a specication:

Figure `1 is a front view'ot` my improved Wash-board. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same, taken through the line w m, Fig. l.

Similar letters ofreference indicate correspondin g parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved wash-board, the zinc rubbing-plate of which shall be so formed as to give a great amount Of friction to the clothes rubbed upon it, and at the same time shall be so `formed as not to injure the said clothes.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing, and then pointed out in the claim.

A represents the wooden frame of the washboard, which is constructed in the usual way. B is the zinc plate, which is secured to the frame A in the usual way. The plate B has transverse ridges O, made with inclined sides formed across it, one of which sides may be made with a Steeper inclination than the other.

Upon the plate B, and at right angles with the ridges C, are formed Vshort ridges D, one end of which ridges D meets the ridges C, and" their other ends stop at a little distance from the next ridge C.

The ridges C D thus form series or rows of T-shaped ridges, the ends of the cross-bars of which meet and form a continuous ridge. In the spaces between and parallel with the short ridges D are formed depressions E.

The plate B may be attached to the frame A, with'the ridges C running across, or up bing-surfaces and Soap-pockets are formed,

substantially as shown and described.

CHARLES EVERTS. Witnesses:

STEPHEN OYSTER, JOHN E. HEOKSTEDER. 

